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OER

OER

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Free teaching materials that anyone can use, share, and change
  • noun
  • Specialized
: recursos educativos abiertos
  • Schools around the world are increasingly using OER to enhance their teaching methods and learning experiences.
  • OER resources
  • open OER
  • educational OER

As we look to the future now to the evolving place of OCW in the OER landscape.

Examples

  • We use the example of Mark Twain's text in our course because it is an Open Educational Resource (OER), and thus can be repurposed with limited effort.

    Academic text (2018)

  • Open Educational Resources (OER) provide free access to learning materials that anyone can share and adapt.

  • Across the world, visions are emerging that would use OER to provide even more powerful support for teaching and learning than we have described here.

    Academic text (2006)

  • Because when you Share your story of using OER, you inspire others, and that's what we're all about.

  • A number of rationales have been advanced in support of OER initiatives.

    Blog text (7)

  • OER materials provide users with the intellectual capital to help them understand and use all of the Web's content.

    Academic text (2006)

  • UNESCO, for example, has embraced the implementation of the OER concept as a goal in its recent two-year plan.

    Academic text (2006)

  • Examples of OER items include curricula, lesson plans, study guides, and multimedia presentations.

    Academic text (2014)

  • Even more importantly, OER can be developed collaboratively, aligned to CCSS, and freely shared between and within states.

    Blog text (15)

  • Besides vendor-based or for-pay supplemental online resources, there are also open educational resources (OERs) or curricular items created by educators and distributed online for the free use of teachers.

    Academic text (2014)

Surface Forms

OER singular
OERs plural

Etymology

OER here stands for Open Educational Resources, meaning free teaching and learning materials anyone can use and change. Think of 'open' as 'available to all' and 'resources' as books or videos, so OER make learning cheaper and easier to share.